Anne Edmondson Barbour is a farm girl who grew up in southwest Missouri. At age seventeen, she graduated from high school. Shortly afterward, she got a job in the advertising department of a daily newspaper in the county seat. Though it consisted mostly of secretarial work, occasionally there was the opportunity to write copy for some of the ads. There were other jobs after that, but through the years, she put her writing talent to work in various circumstances, from writing skits for her Cub Scout den, to newsletters for various organizations, to PR for different entities as part of her job. She took a writers' course by mail, but it was not until she was in her eighties that she ventured into writing novels-romances. To Love Again is the sixth book in the Love Connections series. Anne was happily married for almost sixty years, and is now a widow with five children, ten grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, with number nine expected this year.